Saturday, November 17, 2007

Sore loser? Bad winner...

My blog just won the best UK Blog award—because my views are more in tune with ordinary people than most in the blogosphere...

My overwhelming victory in the 2007 poll shows, for anyone who still had any doubts, that the media's and self-appointed uber-blogger's view of who are the most popular bloggers in Britiain is very different from the situation when the public allowed to decide the issue....

The reason for my blog's popularity is not "bizarre", but very, very simple.

There are some out there who have called me a bad loser—and no doubt will again—but I can assure you that, whilst it would have been amusing to win, your humble Devil really wasn't that concerned. After all, there was no piss-up to go to in this country and there's no way I was going to Las Vegas, even on the promise of free booze.

But for Clark to write so many posts, pleading with his readers to exploit the votes by clicking that button as often as they were able, and then to write this smug, self-serving article is, in my view, poor form.

Is there such a thing as "a bad winner"?

UPDATE:The Exile details how he moved blogging heaven and earth to get people to vote for Clark. Having done so, he then writes...

So, why did Neil Clark win this vote? He won it because he was the most popular choice, obviously.

My impression of people who blog about awards they have won more than - say - twice, is that they have cut the outline of a six-foot penis from cardboard, and are waving it around vigorously in the hope that noone will take a sideways look and reveal how shallow it is in actuality.

My opinion of people who post more than - say - twice, in order to puff there own blog in votes for blog awards is to wonder why they apparently need so much help to cut a penis shape out of a piece of cardboard.

Beyond all of that, I just find people who take blog awards at all seriously rather amusing.

And as for writing puff-pieces for your own blog mentioning your own award on the site of a national newspaper - THAT reminds me of university students sending love letters to themselves in the hope of convincing their flatmates that they have a girlfriend.

It’s one thing to run a campaign for amusement. But to do it because you are taking yourself seriously and greeting it as a major victory … is on a level with a political “2 blokes and their dog Spot” movement congratulating themselves that they distributed 4 and a half copies of their newspaper outside a political conference.

Yes, obviously, but if you still don't get it, I'll spell it out for you.

How to put this? I am not the most diplomatic of men... You live in a nice little world where the only views you read are those of people with whom you have much in common. You self-select, ergo, you miss out on everything else that is going on around the blog world.

Neil had my support, and for the reasons laid out in the post that you linked to. He also had the support of the Pan-Slavs in the Slav diaspora.

Did you even know that the Byzantine Blog existed? Or how it is the mother blog for other sites, all of whom are part of that pan-Slav ideology? I'll bet you didn't.

Iain Dale's Rabbit said... "Oh dear. So you didn't win. Shame, but then if you're a know nowt, failed designer, failed actor, failed producer and all round fuckwit you can hardly expect to do well can you."

The very first line in the CiF article is 'it's official. We now have 4m bloggers in this country'. Yet here is Neil Clark crowing because he managed to get 1,116 of the 4,249 votes cast. Delusional fool.

That CiF column is beyond sad. It reminded me of Alan Partridge with his anecdotes ending with 'needless to say, I had the last laugh.' I wonder who comprises the 'self-appointed uber elite of bloggers' he has been valiantly battling.

Like, no doubt most visitors here, I've never heard of the guy in question, whose name has already escaped me, and I couldn't be arsed to vote for DK.

Mrs Prodicus has been watching this 'contest' (hahahaha) from a distance and was asked to give the 'winner' and his 'second' the once over. I can't give you her verdict because this blog is far too prim. Safe to say that DK remains ahead in that particular contest by a long, er, shot. Mrs P also asks me to pass her compliments to "Trixy, the bitch". What can she mean?